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Censures meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of censure
Example sentences (7)
To support censures, cities and school boards often cite the provisions of their own codes of conduct, which typically read as if they were written for elementary schools, not democratic governments.
These censures condemn Iran's “insufficient” cooperation under the JCPOA, ignoring the unfulfilled Western promise of sanctions relief—the key condition for Iran's agreement to the deal.
Being sent on a mission to Rome in 1445, with the ostensible object of inducing Pope Eugene to convoke a new council, he was absolved from ecclesiastical censures and returned to Germany under an engagement to assist the Pope.
By showing that only someone who is almost beyond human could conduct such an enterprise as empire, Xenophon indirectly censures imperial design.
Guillaume was to receive the city of Bologna from the Visconti, who were illegal occupiers, and hand it over to Giovanni Visconti as the Papal Vicar, and to threaten with ecclesiastical censures any parties who did not adhere to the treaty.
Pope Innocent is notable for using interdict and other censures to compel princes to obey his decisions, although these measures were not uniformly successful.
Yet, John Calvin argues in his Institutes of the Christian Religion that church censures do not "consign those who are excommunicated to perpetual ruin and damnation," but are designed to induce repentance, reconciliation and restoration to communion.